PSY paper
Section 1: Social Psychology
Week 1 -- Recitation Thursday 2/1 or Friday 2/2: Introduction to the class. No quiz
Week 2 -- Social Cognition section 13-1, 13-7, 13-8 Quiz: Thursday 2/8, Friday 2/9 Homework due
Concepts Studies
social cognition woman acts warm or aloof (Napolitan and Goethals, 1979)
attribution cultural differences in attribution (Masuda and Kitayama, 2004 lecture only)
situational attribution
dispositional attribution
fundamental attribution error
actor-observer difference
cultural differences in attribution
just-world phenomenon (textbook only)
Week 3 -- Social Influence sections 13-3 through 13-6 Quiz: Thursday 2/15, Friday 2/16 Homework due
Concepts Studies
conformity conformity studies (Asch, 1955)
normative vs. informational Ku Klux Klan uniforms (Zimbardo, 1970 textbook only)
social influence electric shock (Milgram, 1963, 1974)
roles
obedience
groupthink
deindividuation (textbook only) Names to know
Solomon Asch
Stanley Milgram
Week 4 – Conflict, Prejudice sections 13-7, 13-15, 13-16 Quiz: Thursday 2/22, Friday 2/23 Homework due
Paper 1 assigned, due Thursday 3/8, Friday 3/9
Concepts Studies
social identity theory conflict Boy Scout camp (Sherif, 1966)
stereotype superordinate goals in-group solidarity (Tajfel, 1982)
discrimination mirror image perceptions implicit racial associations (Banaji & Greenwald, 1998)
automatic prejudice GRIT weapons identification studies (Correll et al., 2002;
Greenwald et al., 2003)
scapegoat (Cialdini et al., 1980, textbook only)
Section 2: Developmental Psychology
Week 5 -- Learning sections 7-1 through 7-3, 7-7 through 7-9, 7-11, 7-13, 7-16 Quiz: Thursday 3/1, Friday 3/2 Homework due
Concepts Studies
classical conditioning Pavlov’s dog experiments
unconditioned stimulus children observe aggression (Bandura et al., 1963)
unconditioned response attribution of fear/anger in infants (lecture only)
conditioned stimulus fathers play with babies (lecture only)
conditioned response teachers’ attention to pre-schoolers (lecture only)
operant conditioning mothers read to children (lecture only)
positive reinforcement
punishment
primary reinforcer or punisher
secondary reinforcer or punisher Names to know
extinction Ivan Pavlov
shaping Albert Bandura
superstitious behavior
social learning theories
observational learning
gender schema
Week 6 -- Cognitive Development sections 5-1, 5-5, 5-13 Quiz: Thursday 3/8, Friday 3/9 Paper 1 due No homework due
Concepts Studies
motor reflexes babies view dogs and cats (Spencer lecture only)
Piaget’s cognitive stages children view model room and toy (DeLoache, 1987)
assimilation children view Band Aid box with pencils (Jenkins et al., 1996)
accomodation moral dilemmas (Kohlberg, 1983, 1984)
sensorimotor stage brain imaging of moral dilemma (Greene, 2001 textbook only)
object permanence
preoperational stage
egocentric Names to know
theory of mind Jean Piaget
concrete operational stage Lawrence Kohlberg
operations
conservation developing morality
formal operational stage preconventional morality
abstract reasoning conventional morality
reflecting on Piaget postconventional morality
Week 7 -- Lifespan Development pages section 5-14 Quiz: Thursday 3/15, Friday 3/16 Homework due
Paper 2 assigned, due Thursday 4/12, Friday 4/13
Concepts
Erikson’s psychosocial stages Names to know
trust vs. mistrust Erik Erikson
autonomy vs. shame and doubt
initiative vs. guilt
industry vs. inferiority
identity vs. role confusion
intimacy vs. isolation
generativity vs. stagnation
ego integrity vs. despair
biological maturation
societal expectation
life crises
Experimental Methods and Measures of Central Tendency Lecture 3/12 see concepts after Week 15 below No quiz
Section 3: Cognitive Psychology
Week 8 -- Perception sections 3-3, 6-1 through 6-6, 6-10, 6-12, 6-14, 6-15 Quiz: Thursday 3/22, Friday 3/23
Homework due
Concepts Studies
selective attention tasting fries (Robinson et al., 2007)
sensation studies of subliminal perception (Feguson & Zayas, 2009)
transduction subliminal self-help (Greenwald et al., 1991,1992)
sensory adaptation hunger and food perception (lecture only)
perception kittens view stripes (lecture only)
feature detection
bottom-up processing
top-down processing
perceptual set
form perception figure and ground
Gestalt psychology
Gestalt principles of perceptual grouping
proximity
closure
similarity
continuity
visual constancies
shape constancy
color constancy lightness constancy
size constancy
Week 9 -- Memory sections 8-1 through 8-8, 8-14 through 8-16 Quiz: Thursday 3/29, Wednesday 4/11(Friday schedule)
Homework due
Concepts Studies
reconstructive process memory systems
source amnesia sensory memory car collisions (Loftus & Palmer, 1974)
short-term (working) memory divers learn words (Godden & Baddeley 1975)
explicit memory long-term memory sensory memory (Sperling, 1960)
recall chunks remembering a list of sweets (Roediger et al.,1995 textbook only)
recognition types of long-term memory
implicit memory procedural
priming episodic
relearning semantic
case of H.M. rehearsal
deep processing mnemonics
state-dependent memory flashbulb memory
steps in memory
encoding
storage
retrieval
Week 10 -- Thinking Sections 1-1, 14-21, 9-2 through 9-4 Quiz Thursday 4/12, Friday 4/13 Homework due Paper 2 due
Brief paper 3 assigned, due Thursday 4/19, Friday 4/20
Concepts
Hindsight bias Availability heuristic
Overconfidence Belief perseverance
Self-serving bias Framing
Confirmation bias
Section 4: Abnormal/Clinical Psychology
Week 11 -- Psychoanalytic theory sections 14-1 through 14-9 Quiz: Thursday, 4/19, Friday 4/20 Brief paper 3 due
No homework due
Concepts
Unconscious psychosexual stages of development
psychoanalysis oral
structure of the personality anal
id phallic
ego Oedipus complex
superego identification
defense mechanisms latency
repression genital
projection problems with
displacement psychodynamic theories
reaction formation
regression Names to know
denial Sigmund Freud
sublimation
Week 12 -- Diagnosis/Psychopathology sections 14-7, 14-15, 15-1, 15-3, 15-6, 15-7 through 15-9, 15-11, 15-12
15-15 through 15-17, 16-14, 16-15 Quiz: Thursday 4/26, Friday 4/27 Homework due Paper 4 assigned, due Thursday 5/10, Friday 5/11
Concepts
projective tests multiple personality (dissociative identity disorder)
Rorschach Inkblot test schizophrenia
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) positive symptoms
MMPI delusions
DSM hallucinations
anxiety disorders disorganized speech
generalized anxiety disorder inappropriate behavior
phobia negative symptoms
panic disorder loss of motivation
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) flat affect
obsessions catatonic stupor
compulsions antipsychotic drugs
posttraumatic stress disorder
mood disorders antidepressant drugs
major depression antianxiety drugs
bipolar disorder (manic depression) lithium ECT
Week 13 -- Psychotherapy sections 14-10, 14-11, 16-2 through 16-7 Quiz: Thursday, 5/3, Friday 5/4 Homework due
Concepts
psychodynamic therapy cognitive behavioral therapy rational emotive therapy group therapy
free association behavioral records and contracts client-centered therapy family therapy
transference systematic desensitization unconditional positive regard prevention
resistance role playing rehabilitation psychologists
dream analysis modeling
cognitive restructuring
Names to know
Carl Rogers
Albert Ellis
Section 4: The Nervous System
Week 14 -- The Brain sections 2-7 through 2-12, 6-11 Quiz: Thursday 5/10, Friday 5/11 Paper 4 due No homework due
Concepts Studies
central nervous system Forebrain identify spoon (Gazzaniga, 1967)
spinal cord thalamus photo of nude (lecture only)
reflexes hypothalamus
EEG limbic system
PET scan amygdala
functional MRI hippocampus
neuropsychology Cerebral cortex
Brain stem corpus callosum
medulla split brain
cerebellum blindsight
reticular formation
Week 15 -- The Neuron sections 2-22 through 2-4, 8-13 Lecture 5/14 No quiz Tested on final exam No discussion class
Concepts
neuron synapse action potential
axon neurotransmitter long term potentiation
dendrite endorphin
Lectures on basic Psychology research methods and statistics
Experimental methods and measures of central tendency
sections 1-3, 1-8, 1-11, 1-12 Lecture 3/12 No quiz Tested on final exam No discussion class
Concepts
experiment central tendency
experimental group mean
control group median
independent variable mode
dependent variable variance
random assignment
operational definition
replication
significance
Correlation section 1-5 through 1-7 Lecture 5/9 No quiz Tested on final exam No discussion class
Concepts
correlation scatterplot
correlation coefficient correlation does not imply causation
positive
negative